(snickers) *remembers being told very tersely on that other forum that gerbils were NOT the "natural food" for Ball Pythons*
I've heard of asking pet shops for their used Gerbil bedding to roll your feeder rats in to try and "gerbil scent" them. Knowing how little odor gerbils have to our sense, versus how strong the rat scent can be, I really wondered how well that could work?